The Tale of Tales
Autor Giambattista Basileen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2016
Before the Brothers Grimm, before Charles Perrault, before Hans Christian Andersen, there was Giambattista Basile, a seventeenth-century poet from Naples, Italy, whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of fairy tales. The Tale of Tales-also known as The Pentamerone-opens with Princess Zoza, unable to laugh no matter how funny the joke. Her father, the king, attempts to make her smile; instead he leaves her cursed, whereupon the prince she is destined to marry is snatched up by another woman. To expose this impostor and win back her rightful husband, Zoza contrives a storytelling extravaganza: fifty fairy tales to be told by ten sharp-tongued women (including Zoza in disguise) over five days.
Funny and scary, romantic and gruesome-and featuring a childless queen who devours the heart of a sea monster cooked by a virgin, and who then gives birth the very next day; a lecherous king aroused by the voice of a woman, whom he courts unaware of her physical grotesqueness; and a king who raises a flea to monstrous size on his own blood, sparking a contest in which an ogre vies with men for the hand of the king's daughter-The Tale of Tales is a fairy-tale treasure that prefigures Game of Thrones and other touchstones of worldwide fantasy literature.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780143129141
ISBN-10: 0143129147
Pagini: 494
Dimensiuni: 141 x 216 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0143129147
Pagini: 494
Dimensiuni: 141 x 216 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Giambattista
Basile
(1575-1632)
was
born
to
a
middle-class
family
just
outside
of
Naples,
Italy.
A
poet,
academic,
and
court
administrator,
he
is
most
remembered
for
collecting
the
first
set
of
European
fairy
tales,
published
by
his
sister
two
years
after
his
death.